Additional Resources

We want to SHOW YOU Southeast - one of the most beautiful college campuses you will visit!

Southeast offers a world-class academic experience at an affordable cost. The university’s 200 areas of study emphasize national accreditation, experiential learning and career preparation. In addition to our small class sizes, our faculty and staff genuinely care about your success.

University Foundation

Visitors

The Southeast Missouri University Foundation has announced a $40 million comprehensive campaign, the most ambitious fund-raising effort in the University’s history, to directly support current and future students.

The campaign, named “Honoring Tradition, Inspiring Success,” is focused on increasing scholarships and supporting programs and renovations that benefit students.

Matt Yount

Piano, Collaborative Piano, and Chamber Music

Matt Yount first joined the music faculty at Southeast in 2003. He was appointed as
a full-time instructor of music in 2005, serving as the department’s collaborative
pianist, coaching chamber music, coordinating recitals, and appearing in recital performances
with students and faculty. Yount frequently performs with guest artists who come to
Southeast for appearances in concerts, recitals, or master classes. In addition to
his primary role as collaborative pianist, Mr. Yount has also taught Applied Piano,
Piano Literature, and Jazz Appreciation courses for the music department, and since
1996 has taught private piano lessons through the Southeast Music Academy.

In addition to having extensive experience in chamber music, accompanying, and coaching,
Mr. Yount has also continued to perform solo repertoire and appear as a concerto soloist.
In August 2009, he gave his first solo piano recital as a member of the Southeast
faculty, performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Prokofiev and Moszkowski, and
in March 2008, he appeared as a concerto soloist with the Southeast Symphony Orchestra
in a performance of the Poulenc Double Piano Concerto and Saint-Saens’ Carnival of
the Animals.

Mr. Yount has also been recognized for his excellent classroom teaching with the Success
in Scholarship, Sports and Service Award in November 2006 and the College of Liberal
Arts Faculty Honors Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Creative Activity for 2011.
Other accomplishments away from the concert stage include the publication of revised
orchestral reductions for Nicolas Flagello's song cycle The Land and an anthology
of songs of Gabriel Faure arranged for horn and piano.

A Southeast alumnus, Yount holds three degrees including diplomas in both music and
mathematics. As an undergraduate, he studied piano with Jim Sifferman and John Shelton,
winning honors in local and statewide collegiate piano competitions. Yount studied
piano for two years independently as a student of Jean-Louis Haguenauer and Reiko
Neriki at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and has appeared in recital
there in March 2009. He can also be heard performing with Southeast’s Faculty Jazz
Quintet locally in the Cape Girardeau area.